Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole /
Belser, Julia Watts, 1978-
Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole / Julia Watts Belser. - 276 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-264) and index.
Claiming disability -- Grappling with the Bible: gender, disability, and God -- Hiddenness and visibility: passing and presenting as disabled -- Ableism: the social-political dimension of disability -- Priestly blemishes: talking back to the Bible's ideal bodies -- Moses: portrait of a disabled prophet -- The land you cannot enter: longing, loss, and other inaccessible terrain -- The perils of healing -- Isaac's blindness: the complexity of trust -- Jacob and the angel: wheels, wings, and the brilliance of disability difference -- The politics of beauty: disability and desire -- The radical practice of rest: Shabbat values and disability justice -- God on wheels: disability theology.
"A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture"--
9780807006757 0807006750
2023013079
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Disability studies.
Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole / Julia Watts Belser. - 276 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-264) and index.
Claiming disability -- Grappling with the Bible: gender, disability, and God -- Hiddenness and visibility: passing and presenting as disabled -- Ableism: the social-political dimension of disability -- Priestly blemishes: talking back to the Bible's ideal bodies -- Moses: portrait of a disabled prophet -- The land you cannot enter: longing, loss, and other inaccessible terrain -- The perils of healing -- Isaac's blindness: the complexity of trust -- Jacob and the angel: wheels, wings, and the brilliance of disability difference -- The politics of beauty: disability and desire -- The radical practice of rest: Shabbat values and disability justice -- God on wheels: disability theology.
"A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture"--
9780807006757 0807006750
2023013079
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Disability studies.